Wednesday, March 19, 2008

10 AJAX Effects to Boost Your Website’s Fanciness Factor

Here’s a collection of 10 powerful – yet easy-to-implement — AJAX effects to supplement your web page’s interface. These were picked using a “bang for your buck” methodology; meaning that these effects were chosen specifically because they provide high-impact effects with very little effort in installing and using them.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Google Drive killer coming from MIT Startup

For Windows and Mac OS X... why wasn't this made 5 years ago?

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Eight awesome features you didn’t know about in Ubuntu

Ubuntu has caused GNU/Linux based operating systems to have many reviews recently, most concentrating on the more flashy parts such as the infamous rotating cube or wobbly windows provided by compiz fusion, rather than the things that actually make it such a enjoyable operating system to use.

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The least used page on microsoft.com

a guide no one has ever used.

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"w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary

"w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Use a Linksys router instead of buying the xbox 360 wireless adapter

This is something that I found to be VERY convenient. Instead of purchasing the $100 wireless adapter for the Xbox 360, its much more cost efficient to mod your existing wireless router. If you happen to have a Linksys WRT54G, then this article can save you time and money. What you need to do, is visit www.dd-wrt.com and upgrade your router firmware to this modified firmware which will allow you to use your router in place of buying the $100 adapter as mentioned before. What the firmware will allow you to do is place your Linksys in "Client" mode, so that it connects to a wireless network rather than broadcasting one. Of course you will need 2 routers for this setup to work (essentially, they can be any router since the ddwrt firmware works on a range of routers). I found other articles that worked but with the other set-ups, I was unable to view/share files between my 360 and windows machines since my 360 was on a separate "sub-network", and you had to set up some fancy routing tables, which I could never get to work. The absolute easiest way is to follow the guide after the jump. I followed it work for work 1 time and had no problems. In the guide it actually sets up a Bridge between the router broadcasting the internet and the modified Linksys router. This way, every computer on the network (no matter if its on the Host Router or hooked up into the Linksys router) can see/view/share files with each other completely wire free. If you have any question please feel free to ask, because it took me a while to find this guide myself.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge

Note: Only follow the instructions after the title "Example". Follow step for step and you should have no problems!

Alltel Launches Blackberry Pearl 8130 on December 13th

Just for anybody that might be wondering, Alltel will be launching a blue version of the Blackberry Pearl 8130. Notable features include a 2.0 megapixel camera, Suretype, and GPS. For a full list of features please visit www.alltel.com/pearl